Jacqli
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| Jacqli (Mir Teiwaz Ar tonelico) | |
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| Kanji/Kana | 蛇刳(ジャクリ) |
| Unaltered Name | Jakuri (Mule Teiwaz Ar tonelico) |
| Race | Pure blooded β Type Reyvateil |
| Hymn Code | MIR_TEIWAZ_ARTONELICO |
| Age | 382 (looks 15) |
| Height | 153 cm |
| Weight | 34 kg |
| First Appearance | Melody of Elemia |
| Hymmnos Singer | Noriko Mitose |
| English Voice Actor | Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (AT1) Wendee Lee (AT2) |
| Japanese Voice Actor | Ui Miyazaki |
Jacqli (or Jakuri in the Japanese release of Ar tonelico 2) is a fictional character from the game Ar tonelico 2: Melody of Metafalica.
She is the third heroine of Ar tonelico 2 and joins the party a little before the ending of Phase 2. Even though she looks as young as 15 years old, her true age is 382 years (at the time of Ar tonelico 2's events).
She is also reputed as the strongest Reyvateil in the world. She had waged a war against humanity and Shurelia in the past - a war that resulted with great devastation to Sol Ciel and her subsequent imprisonment.
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[edit] Jacqli's Story
[edit] Origins
Jacqli was known as Mir in Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia. Mir is her true name and she was originally created by humans. She was created to have no emotions, as her creators believed that doing so will result in a stronger Reyvateil. However, she developed emotions over time, and created her first Song, EXEC_HARMONIOUS/. Mir crafted the song to show her admiration and belief in the human race. This development displeased her creators and, in addition to completely neglecting Harmonious and the Songs she crafted that were not for battle, she was regarded as a defective product. And not being enough with that, she was set to become the controller for the Reyvateil Control System that humans had implanted into the Silver Horn.
Angered and disillusioned, Mir began to harbor hostile feelings toward the humans, to the point in which she seized control of the Silver Horn and shut down all outside access to it, to begin hacking the Tower. She also rescued Shurelia from an investigation facility in which she was being experimented on to strip her of her emotions and will. However, given the extreme measures she had taken in rescuing Shurelia, Mir never received any kind of gratitude for it. Instead, Shurelia, the humans, and other reyvateils who refused to defect waged war againt Mir and her forces. The ensuing battles resulted in the destruction of the known civilization and the loss of that period's knowledge and technology.
The war initially started as a stalemate between Mir and Shurelia, with the presumption that both had the same level of power. However, as the war progressed it became apparent that Shurelia did not have any chance of defeating Mir because of her superior singing speed and processing power, which allowed her to be two steps ahead of Shurelia.
Shurelia finally called her old friend and current Hoshiyomi (Star Singer), Tastiella, for help, who sung a Teru song to imprison Mir inside of Grathnode crystals. Mir transferred all of her Soulspace to Ar tonelico, transforming it into the virus, "Shadow." This gave her the ability to continue hacking and attacking, rendering the Teru song insufficient. Finally, having no other means at their disposal, Tastiella sacrificed herself to finish the construction of the magical machine "Crescent Chronicle," while the second most powerful Pureblooded Beta-type Reyvateil, Lune, sang the hymn EXEC_CHRONICLE KEY/. to imprison Mir within it. As long as a descendant of Lune (one of her clones) sung Chronicle Key, Mir would remain imprisoned.
[edit] Involvement in Ar tonelico 1
However, when the current Star Singer, Misha Arsellec Lune, was kidnapped by Bourd Rade of the Tenba Corporation, Mir began to execute her plans to kill all humans in Sol Ciel and create a utopia for Reyvateils, Reyvateilia. Her first move then was to resume her attack on the tower using viruses. While Lyner was still in the Lower World in search of the Purger, Mir awakened, and while she mocked Shurelia for still being the protector of the humans, she killed one of the captains of the Knights of Elemia, and then, she proceeded to hack the weather control system of the Tower, the Musical Corridor. This caused the fall of one of the Hexagonal Plates, and when Shurelia berated her for doing this, which would cause a climatologic disaster in Sol Ciel, Mir just mocked her again, knocked everyone around her unconscious, and then disappeared.
Mir is not seen again until the events involving the Hymn Crystal Linker, in which she appeared in Aurica's Cosmosphere under the guise of Goddess Tylia, and was one of the major driving forces on the search of said crystal. However, this was just a ruse directed by Bishop Falss, who intended to revive Mir to enslave her. However, his plans backfired: once Mir took possession of Aurica's body, she mocked Falss, and dispatched him by infecting him with her viruses. When all seems lost for Lyner and his friends, Misha is reinstated as the Star Singer and began singing Chronicle Key again, forcefully separating Mir from Aurica's body and sending her back into her deep sleep state. With this, it seemed that peace would return again to Sol Ciel...
Ayatane's true intentions and purpose were revealed when he had the chance to meet with Shurelia in the Rinkernator. With Shurelia caught off-guard, Ayatane implanted Mir's consciousness into her body. Mir, now using her new faculties as the Administrator of the Tower, let loose the viruses again, and takes away Lyner's father so her enemies would not know how to fight against her. However, she saw that this plan was a failure once Lyner and the others reached the place where the FFT Divider was stored, and managed to obtain it. In response to this, she sent her ELMA-DS virus and a couple of brainwashed ELMA guardians. Lyner's party defeated them, and proceeded to continue climbing the Tower.
Once they reached the Rinkernator, Mir mocked them again, especially berating Lyner's naïveté, and then proceeded to harm him greatly. And when Aurica/Misha tried to activate the FFT Divide to separate her from Shurelia's body, she summoned a guardian and blocked it. A fierce battle ensued, with Lyner being the victor. Lyner and his party used to chance to try again using the FFT Divider, and this time, it managed to work. However, Mir did not give up, and returned under the shape of the Shadow virus and attacked them again. After her defeat, Mir announced that she was one with the Tower, and that no one would be able to defeat her while the Tower was still active. This made Shurelia decide to use the EXEC_SUSPEND/. hymn, her last resource, to stop Mir completely.
A few months later, Mir reawakened thanks to Aurica's singing of the EXEC_RE=NATION/. hymn, and with Ayatane's help, she managed to free herself from the Crescent Chronicle, though she did it partially. Then, she ordered Ayatane to destroy the Plasma Bell that sustained the Wings of Horus. However, Ayatane rebelled against this when he learned that Lyner and his companions were traveling now to find a way to save Mir from the hatred that was consuming her. This greatly enraged Mir, but since she considered Ayatane her own son, she could not bring herself to delete him. Instead, she permeated her consciousness into Ayatane's body as soon as they entered into the Silver Horn, and struck him unconscious with a lightning bolt, while a completed ABR guardian attacked Lyner's party.
When Lyner finally told Tastiella the answer to her question, and she opened the doors to the Crescent Chronicle, Mir revealed a gigantic, and demonic virus form, which was the ultimate manifestation of her hatred. Lyner and company defeated it, and when they offered their hands to Mir to stop fighting, she shrieked out, and began attacking them enclosed into a barrier of pure hatred. Lyner and the others then put into themselves the task of breaking up that barrier while avoiding to harm Mir. After this, Mir finally understood that not all humans were evil, and between overflowing tears, she began singing the song that was the token of her gratitude to them: EXEC_RIG=VEDA/. After this, she disappeared, only appearing briefly to tell Ayatane the feelings she was going to contribute to EXEC_PHANTASMAGORIA/.
[edit] Involvement in Ar tonelico 2
After the canonical ending of the first Ar tonelico, Mir, together with Jack, Krusche, and Spica departed for Metafalss. It would be later revealed that Mir aimed to save the world using the theories of Metafalica. Mir never revealed her name to anyone in Metafalss, and she hid herself within a robot that was called "Jacqli". The people around her began to refer to her too as Jacqli. Though she never really minded it, she would've chosen a cooler alias for herself if given the opportunity.
To aid Croix and his party in their quest to realize their dream of creating Metafalica, Jacqli provided them insights about their missions, especially about the technology and history of the tower. She also provided them support firepower, something which became useful in the destruction of different obstacles for the party. Her cosmosphere deals with her conflicting views on humanity based on her past, one where she wishes to coexist with humans and one where she wishes to create a Reyvateil only world. The problem becomes so great that she practically kills herself only to be saved by Croix. Her mind guardian is Ayatane.
She became acquaintances with Laude, a native of the Tower of Tyria. After Luca is revealed to be the true Maiden, Cloche forces Raki to descend from Sol Marta. Because a treaty was broken, Raki begins an attack to be stopped by Jacqli's robot. Surprising Croix that she could speak, Jacqli encourages him to take care of the IPDs and destroy the Divine Army. Eventually the land begins to sink, so she encourages Laude to get the two Maidens to sing Metafalica. Instead of Metafalica, the chaotic Gaea is created. Jacqli exits her robot for the first time to gaze unsympathetically upon it. She didn't care that the humans' dreams were crushed.
When Alfman was dead-set on destroying Gaea, Jacqli intervened, allowing for Croix to save either Cloche or Luca. She finally meets Croix face to face on Gaea, though he thinks she’s working for Alfman. She introduces her as the “main body of Jacqli”, leading everyone to call her the robot’s name rather than her true name. Jacqli openly opposes Croix, saying that saving Cloche or Luca interferes with her goal. However, she also doesn’t stop them from trying to get to them first.
She became acquaintances with Laude, a native of the Third Tower, the Tower of Tyria. Although both of them back then aimed for the Heart of Gaea, Laude wanted the heart so that he would be declared as a hero in the Tower of Tyria. Mir worked with him for a while, until she took the heart for herself after Gaea was created. Unfortunately, the she deemed the heart as "too small" to suit her purposes. She returned the heart to Croix and his party, and joined them as a member.
Reappearing upon unlocking the second level of the Infelsphere, Jacqli revealed that she is after the Heart of Gaea, which is the soul and tune of Luca's or Cloche's song magic. She isn’t trusted upon her word, but she asserts that she never lies, unlike humans, and that she won’t do anything bad to the Heart of Gaea. Later Jacqli finds her way to the Heart and she sang EXEC_SPHERIA/. to get permission to retrieve the it. Croix still claimed that her song confused the Heart, but Jacqli shrugs it off as a side-effect, saying the conversation of songs was necessary to understand her deeply.
Taking off with the Heart, Jacqli was soon found on Alfman’s ship with Laude after they destroyed the engine. Here, they revealed that they were only using the Grand Bell to further their goals. However, with the Heart quickly shrinking and a life on the line, Jacqli betrayed Laude as well and flew to the Cat Mansion, where she researched the history of Metafalss extensively. The Heart was too low of a level to do what Jacqli wanted, so she simply handed it back to Croix upon demand. She agreed to tell Croix what she knows about creating land, which isn’t much, but she knows that the current state of Metafalss cannot create Metafalica because the people can’t trust each other.
Jacqli then took digs at the tower administrators, calling Shurelia unreliable and Frelia crazy, musing that the world might be coming to its end. She didn't think hope was lost for Metafalica, thinking the key was in Kanakana Pier. Before finding these secrets, Jacqli took the Heart back to Luca or Cloche, not wanting unnecessary deaths. However, Jacqli couldn't successfully put the Heart back in because it didn't have the will to live, so she left the job to Croix.
Later, at the Dreamy Fields, she forcefully opened up a cave using song magic, scaring everyone by having them between the dangerous blast and the cave. However, she had complete control of the explosion radius, and thus didn’t put anyone in danger. She explains within the structure that holds the tower together, and that people weren’t originally supposed to live on it. Her destructive nature later became a running gag, with Croix always last to get out of the way.
Upon the singing of EXEC_HIBERNATION/., Jacqli was the first to realize the Infel Pira is being hacked into, provoking the group into pursuing Lakra. She again used her forceful method to open the lock leading to Lakra, saying they can’t be picky about their methods. She decided, upon seeing what Lakra was doing, that Cocona should be dove into. At Pastalia, Jacqli explained she was trapped in the Binary Field and it’s the same place as the memory of the Infel Pira. Furthermore, she revealed that Cocona's Boundary Gate, which can be broken through at her age, leads to the Binary Field. Instead of Jacqli diving, Cocona allows Croix to break the Boundary Gate, despite her low survival odds and the risk of losing her self.
Jacqli then convinced Croix that the memory could be retrieved from Lakra. Upon their return, they get attacked by a monster from Infel Pira’s memory which Jacqli identifies as negative emotions, the likely cause of I.P.D. outbreaks as well. Knowing true hatred herself, she also knew that the monster wasn't all the hatred that exited within the Infel Pira, and thus didn't think the monster was of a high level. She even called it “cute”, comparatively speaking. Jacqli merely laughed when Croix tells her it sounded like she’s created one before, but she still refused to answer when he asked who she really is. She created EXEC_HARMONIOUS_FUSION/. specifically for the monster, and it immediately panicked and attacked.
The chaos of Hibernation caused a lot of trouble for the I.P.D.s, so the group returned to Kanakana Pier. There, Jacqli learned of the location of Implanter and why the People of Aqua were kept in Kanakana Pier. They were to support the Maiden of Aqua, the one who controls the Infel Pira, and they were the engineers of the device as well. When the first Metafalica ended in disaster, they were imprisoned and forced to make the Infel Pira a home for souls when the Ascension project was completed. Thus, Jacqli revealed that Cloche, the Maiden of Aqua, must be an IPD.
Upon finding Implanter, Croix asked Jacqli to download it, but she instantly refused by saying that she wasn’t interested and her emotions wouldn’t give the song the desired effect. She instead tells Croix to have Luca sing it, as she would be much more likely to put her feelings into it. Additonally, she was worried that Cocona wouldn't come back to normal; she should’ve had a mental breakdown when her Boundary Gate was forced open. Croix remained optimistic, regardless, and refused to hold it against Jacqli till the worst had happened.
After Enna began to fall, Jacqli took off on her own towards Cat Mansion. Croix chased after her, revealing that he was worried because she didn't say anything to him; something that somewhat surprised Jacqli. She explained she was there to collect her belongings before the area fell. Since Laude was also there, she reveals she knew little about him except that they have the same goal: to get the Heart of Gaea. However, she emphasized that they had completely different uses for the Heart. She tells Croix to not worry about Laude or the tower he came from and instead focus on Metafalica. Finally, she revealed that she came from a different tower herself, then asking to go to Promise Hill, which was also about to fall.
There, she opened a door to gain access to Infel’s diary, claiming it was a historical document due to the author's death. They learned the circumstances behind the failure of the last time Metafalica was sung. Jacqli found herself agreeing with some of the sentiments within the diary: the world is ugly and people are heartless.
Much later, at the gyro stabilizer, Jacqli praised the people of Metafalss for being smart enough to make hymn crystals to control individual robots rather than all the robots. Claiming that these people were smarter than those of her homeland, she explains that a place had been destroyed by having a master Hymn before, very likely referring to her own acts. To stop one of the robots from mass producing the Divine Army, she downloads the Hymn Crystal Despedia. Croix never thought he’d download anything into her, admitting he once thought she was evil. In return, she claimed that people don’t change so easily.
The feeling of downloading the Hymn is addictive, making Jacqli glad to be a Reyvateil for it. She barely contained her excitement with her new Hymn, but every command she gave the robot was canceled immediately. Immediately she figured out that someone was living in the Binary Field, and though Shun thought it’s impossible, Jacqli claimed to have first-hand experience. After the battle, Shun asked about Jacqli being a third generation, to which she replied that she’s a beta. She furthermore revealed she was the last of the Reyvateils created 400 years ago and that she could surpass the powers of Origins in some areas. She also admitted she destroyed another world. Even with this knowledge, Shun wasn’t worried as she didn’t look like she wanted to destroy Metafalss.
Upon Raki’s defeat in Sol Marta, Jacqli utilized Reki’s ability to look into her hacked sister’s memory. When asked if she has a license, Jacqli cooly replied that she has more experience than anyone with one and proceeded to enter the Binary Field. She sought the help of Shurelia, who was shocked to see her. Due to Jacqli not having any experience with maintenance roids, she convinced a reluctant Shurelia to hack into Raki and open all doors within Sol Marta. In return, Shurelia forced Jacqli to return to Sol Ciel; supposedly because she needed help getting rid of Jacqli’s security.
They find that Raki has been hacked by someone very knowledgeable. Jacqli left Shurelia with a warning to not let her security down as she might get attacked by this unknown person, despite Jacqli herself being the first to attack her. She eventually had a conversation with Infel, who called her a virus. Jacqli thought that the chaos the created on another tower with viruses was better than what Infel tried to do. Infel then sent a beast of negative emotions – like the one before – to attack the group outside the Binary Field.
In every ending of the game she asks Cocona to take the heart to the Third Tower. In the Mir ending of the game, Croix reveals he knows her real name and sings the first song he made by himself in Hymmnos, bringing her to her knees and in tears. They later depart together to her home in the first tower.
[edit] Jacqli's Hymns and Costumes
[edit] Hymns
EXEC_RIG=VEDA/. - Proof of her gratitude to Lyner's party for having saved her from her hatred. Has the same effects as the original version of Harmonious.
EXEC_SPHILIA/. - Allows communication between two entities, and the opening of the hearts of both.
EXEC_HARMONIOUS_FUSION/. - Calms down the hearts of the listeners, and quells negative emotions.
EXEC_DESPEDIA/. - Acts a control key for the Divine Beam that guards the power generator for the force field protecting the Viena Hymn Crystal, deep inside of the Gyro Stabilizer.
[edit] Costumes
Standard (Available by default)
Long Skirt (Received after clearing the Lv. 1 Cosmosphere)
Spirit Gunner (Received after clearing the Lv. 2 Cosmosphere)
Dorky Girl (Received after clearing the Lv. 3 Cosmosphere)
Southern Cross (Received after clearing the Lv. 4 Cosmosphere)
FunboT (Received after clearing the Lv. 5 Cosmosphere)
Lady Drape (Received after clearing the Lv. 6 Cosmosphere)
Miros (Received after clearing the Lv. 7-C Cosmosphere)
Pure Ritual (Received after clearing the Lv. 8 Cosmosphere)
Dark Rose (Received after clearing the Lv. 9 Cosmosphere)
[edit] Trivia
- Jacqli's (Mir's) Hymn Code is not actually the one listed in her profile, but it's actually MIR_FEHU_EOLIA_ARTONELICO. It's just that she hacked her Hymn Code and added the new term "Teiwaz" because she couldn't stand the idea of being called a subordinate to Shurelia (the FEHU_EOLIA part roughly "translates to descendant of Eolia").[1]
- As Mir, she was called the "Second Coming of Goddess Tylia", and as such, she was worshipped like a Goddess. To be more precise, even the people that continue worshiping Tylia in the current times are actually worshiping Mir without them knowing about it.[2]
- The character she portrays in levels 1-5 of her cosmosphere uses the same last name as the character Shurelia created in her own cosmosphere, Togasaki.
- Jacqli's name isn't actually her's, but actually, is the type name of the robot she pilots. It was a robot that was developed in Metafalss around 700 years ago; and it was called "Jakuri" (clear snake) because it had implanted an script that allowed it to change shape. Mir simply painted and outfitted it to match her tastes; and she has even said that even if she doesn't mind having "Jakuri/Jacqli" as an alias; she would have chosen a more cooler name if she had the choice. Also, this means that her ELMA-DS virus and her ELMA-DSRX robot don't have any relationship between them, sans for having similar names and shapes.[3]
- Mir learned about the Project Metafalica that was done during the First Era thanks to the Tower library, and that was why she ended admiring so much the ideals and mentality of the people of Metafalss that she ended crafting Harmonious out from that admiration, while giving to Metafalica the meaning of Song of Hope (which was the same meaning that Misha gave to that word when she sang Harmonious back to Mir, pulled out from the feelings contained in Harmonious). This, of course, also means that Mir didn't have any part in the crafting of any of the Metafalica hymns. [4]
[edit] See Also
[edit] References
- ↑ Ar tonelico Official Site - Ar Portal: Toukousphere Issue #74
- ↑ Ar tonelico Official Materials Collection - World Section
- ↑ Ar tonelico Official Site - Ar Portal: Toukousphere Issue #73
- ↑ Ar tonelico Official Site - Ar Portal: Toukousphere Issue #59
